Improvement in label-holders



`@einen tnt @anni frn Letters Patent No. 80,683, dated August 4, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN LABEL-HOLDERS.

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TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

. Be it known that I, GEORGE S. TRUE, of Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth, and State of Kansas, have invented a new vand improved Device for Marking Baggage; and I do hereby declare that the't'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This Yinvention relates'to an improvement in means for marking trunks, chests, boxes, and other similar `articles used by travellers for transportation from place to place, as baggage, or for other purposes.

And the invention consists in attaching to the trunk (to the side or end, or in any convenient manner and conspicuous positionJa card-holder, so constructed as tocontain'blank cards, in a proper receptacle, and in a device for fastening, by clamps or springs, a card, with the proper direction of the baggage marked thereon, as

I will proceed to describe.

Figure 1 represents the end ofthe cover of a trunk with my card-holder attached.

Figure 2 is a view ofthe inside of theinner plate;

Figure 3 is a cross-sectlon, through the line a: :z: of Iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts.

' vA. represents the end of tlie lcover of thetrunk.

B is the card-holder.

Cis the magazine or receptacle for blank cards.

rlhe card-holder isiV formed .of two parts, D and E, in this example of my invention.

D is hing'ed to E, at f, and when'elosed with a card in place, as seen in the drawing, it is fastened at g by a spring, i, or otherwise.

The plate E is flanged on three sides, so that it is -raised from the trunk, and a space for cards is left, as seen at C.

The hinged part, D, is alsoanged, and shuts over E, as seen in the drawing, so that when a card contain-V ing the proper directicnvis placed on the plate E, and tbc cover D is closed down on to it, the card shows, as the central portion of D is 'removed `or cut out, leaving a'rim, 7a, which bears on the edges of the card, and holds it securely in place.

J represents the card thus held.

It will be seen that by raising D the card can be removed, and another one inserted whenever any change ,is to be made in the direction.

I do not confine myself` to this Vparticular method of constructing the card-plate, as I am aware that they may be made'in varicus'ways.

I'clam as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentl v The cardholder, consisting ofthe parts D E, the former being hinged to the latter, which is adapted to be .so attached to the trunk as to form a. magazine, C, substantially as herein shown and described.

The above specification of myA invention signed by me, this 13th day of May, 1868. Y

4 GEORGE S. TRUE.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

